title: Short REM latency in primary alcoholic patients with secondary depression.
abstract: Primary alcoholic patients with secondary depression had significantly shorter REM latency and less non-REM sleep than alcoholics without other psychiatric diagnoses and normal control subjects. Both patient groups had significantly longer sleep latency and less sleep efficiency, total sleep time, and delta sleep than control subjects.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, San Diego VA Medical Center, CA.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Gillin
authors.forename: T L
authors.initials: TL
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Irwin
authors.forename: D F
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: Kripke
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schuckit
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002940:Circadian Rhythm; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012894:Sleep Stages / Q000502:physiology; D012895:Sleep, REM / Q000502:physiology*; D014851:Wakefulness / Q000502:physiology